The world-wide story of Czech television, about which Grani.Ru was recently written in detail, is actually over. Completed, as expected, with the complete victory of the insurgent people. On the afternoon of January 17, journalists tired of waiting the official resignation of Khodachevsky appointees, seized the headquarters of television and proclaimed Ladislav Polushka as acting general director.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation proposed to reduce the 80,000th grouping of the Ural Military District by 10,000. This proposal is contained in terms of the construction of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for 2001-2005, which was sent to the president for signature.

Life, Nabokov said, vilely imitates literary fiction. Leading his hero Cincinnatus Ts. to the scaffold, the writer seemed to see in real life the expression on the face of the State Secretary of the Union of Russia and Belarus Pavel Borodin at the visa control post at Kennedy Airport, where he was told that he had been detained at the request of the Swiss prosecutor's office. The “Borodin case” becomes the “Russian case”.

The arrest in New York Pal Palych Borodin - an event, what a sin to hide is wonderful. Complete, first head sensation. Loud international scandal. The triumph of justice in especially large sizes. On the other hand, nothing unexpected happened. The fact that the executive secretary of the Russian-Belarusian coeze in the West is better not to appear is known since time immemorial. As well as the fact that in his name Interpol was purchased an appropriate order.

The Russian political scene is more and more like a criminal. And on these criminal-political stage, completely enchanting events take place, which are able to form even more exotic, the image of the Russian Federation than before. On the one hand, the Americans, following the order of the Swiss Judicial Investigator, arrest Pavel Borodin, who is held in the Mabetex case and is considered prominent - international scale - the recipient of bribes.

The scandal around the detention in New York Pavel Borodin is growing. Angry denunciations at the address of the American authorities multiply an hour from an hour.

For the first time, one of the highest Russian state officials was detained abroad on charges of a purely criminal offense, where it does not smell like politics, no matter how the former manager of the president’s affairs is trying to approve. Yesterday in Moscow, the unsinkable Pal Palych smiled sweetly at the reception in honor of the Belarusian president, and today it is already painfully spending long hours in one of the New York prison. What was not expected in Moscow in any way.

The Korean "island" was praised in advance as a beautiful, but shocking film. Those who managed to go to the Korean militant “have nowhere to hide” approximately imagined such a situation: a lot of carefully built personnel, and at the same time someone beats someone long and disgustingly. It pours rain, pours blood. So it turned out - there is no fight, but there are plenty of blood.

Russia is a country of benefits and beneficiaries. The latter make up more than half of the population of our homeland. Last year, the government decided to declare war on this surplus of socialism, and the military was the first to be the first, as usual, in the front edge of the struggle. From January 1, 2001, it was decided to transfer a number of "military" benefits from natural uniforms.

"Shiri" is the first South Korean blockbuster, which was ahead of the fees even "Titanic". Critics have already managed to announce that the director Kan Jae Guy had revived the genre of traditional "action", where the main thing is - who and with which physiognomy is bullets into the enemy. The hero runs, the hero shoots, in one fell swoop of seven killed, bullets fly, skyscrapers explode, and a friend dies in his arms at each other.

The transcript of the meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 15, 2000 is a simple document. The first deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Ulyukaev reports on how preparations are being prepared for the transfer of a number of benefits for military personnel from natural uniforms. Well, then if the battalion commander goes to the subway for free today, then tomorrow - for money. And utilities - at full cost. And so on. This text does not need any lengthy comments.

Vladimir Putin and envoy. Photo NTV.ru Despite the fact that Putin’s presidency has already gone for the second year, GDP reform so far at the very beginning. And everything that has begun is done extremely slowly - we can say that the new Putin government is breaking through like a flower through the asphalt of the old elite (albeit with difficulty, but with good chances of success). The elite of the Putin's call is formed slowly.

The authors of the intrigue around the NTV seem to have considered that it was time to convince the viewer of the proximity of the denouement. In a sluggish intrigue that lasted almost a year, such bursts have already occurred - with searches, descriptions of property and even appeals to Interpol, but now some completely feverish pace has been given the development of events.